Global Education Practicum



syllabus

CBNU-practicum.wikispaces.com


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Thursday 1-2 PM
Room 109 (Computer lab)
Prof. Okhwa Lee

Dept. of Education
Chungbuk National University
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Course Description


This course is designed to experience Korean school culture, Korean environment, diverse digital technology for the interdisciplinary approach. Education is socially contextualized activity. This class offers such experience for understanding the diverse cultural influence in learning. Students will be exposed to Korean schools, teachers and students and will be allowed to practice their instructional skills. Diverse instructional activities will be offered to students such as international day activities, presentation of their own country, educational system, learning tools for interaction, national and regional educational policies.
This class offers authentic learning experience through collective intelligence using wikispaces (web 2.0 tool).

Recommended resources (reading)

EBS video “ West and East”
John Seely Brown (2008) “Minds on Fire” (10 pages) EDUCAUSE www.johnseelybrown.com

Reference material : Rezena Bajcsy (2001) “2020 Visions”, 85pages., USA Ministry of Education

Course Goals and Objectives

After the course, students should be able to:
1. Experience the spiritual understanding of Korean way of thinking
2. Identify elements to social identity
3. Evaluate the futuristic perspectives toward education
4. Experience Korean school culture
5. Compare the differences and commonalities between Korean and EU schools

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Class Activities

Thursday 1-2 PM (Rm. 109)

1. Every week, one hour in the class
Students are required to activly participate in the classroom activities

2. Field trips (five times)
Seorak mountains in September (9.30-10.3) : four days
Temple stay at Seonamsa in Suncheon Oct. 29-30) : two days
Jeju island in Nov. (11.10-14) : five days
Sokri mountain in Nov. (11.19) : one day
Jiri mountain in Dec. (12.3-4): two days

3. School visits
Sept. 19-24 One week at the university affiliated high school : schedule
Oct. 28 Bongmyung middle school
Nov. 4 Seowon middle school
Nov. 19 Crystal primary school
Journal to be written during the practicum


4. Digital literacy
Image production
1. Photo taking
2. Simple editing of pictures
3. Uploading on wiki
Video production
4. Video filming
5. editing
6. Uploading on Wikispaces
Sound production
7. Selecting music
8. Recoding audio
9. Sound editing
10. Combining with other multi-media materials
11. Uploading on wiki
Implementing online learning environment
12. Wiki widget
13. Archiving
14. Upload ppt presentation on wiki by widget


Weekly activities


week2 9.8 Thursday
Introduction to CBNU-praticum.wikispaces.com
Program at the practicum school

week3 9.15 Thursday

Journal for school practicum
Review of the teaching plan



week4 9.19-24 practicum

practicum September 19-24 : students need to upload the journal
upload the result of class room activities with high school students on wikispaces


week5 9.29 Thursday

Reflection of practicum at the CBNU high school
Developing informtion about Seorak mountains on Wikispaces
collecting and simple editing of pictures for Seorak mountains


week6 10.6 Thursday

updates the home page for Seorak mountains on Wikispaces using the data from the field trip


week7 10.13 Thursday
EBS documentary East and West part 1
upload your reflection on discussion
Differences of how east and west learn
How to apply the difference in education


week8 10.20 Thursday EBS documentary East and West part 2

upload your reflection on discussion
Differences of how east and west learn
How to apply the difference in education


week9 10.27 Thursday
preparation to go to the temple stay (Seonunsa in Chuchon)


week10 11.3 Thursday

preparation for Jeju island field trip


week11 11.10 Thursday

Leave for Jeju island


week12 11.17 Thursday

Minds of fire : Open education, the long tail, and learning 2.0 by John Seeley Brown & Richard P. Adler, 2008 (Educause)

school visit on 19th of Nov.
Crystal primary school in Sokrisan

week13 11.24 Thursday

comparisons of school culture - the differences and similarities

week14 12.1 Thursday

Differences of learning between East and West
How to apply the differences in education?


week 15 12. 8 Thursday

Reflections of the class

Evaluation


Task
  1. 10% Preparation for the practicum (instructional plan, instructional materials development)
  2. 40% Journal of the practicum (one week : 25%, 5%*3 : total 40%)
  3. 20% Development of field visits on CBNU-praticum.wikispaces.com. (Multi-media on Wiki for Sokrisan(10%), Jirisan(10%)
  4. 20% Report1 : Reflections of school visits : comparisons of school culture - the differences and similarities
  5. 10% Report2 : Cultural differences and How to apply the differences of learning between East and West

Guidelines
1. Relevance (clarity, content related to class, organized, facts, data, relevant, style)
2. Resources, Effort, & Digging (citations/refs, linkages to class concepts, extensive)
3. Completeness & Coherence (depth, clear, complete, practical, detailed, important, logical)
4. Creativity and Richness of Ideas (richness of information, elaboration, originality, unique)
5. Knowledge of Topic (learning breadth & depth, growth, displays understanding of topic)